Looking Out Looking In Analysis

David Foster Wallace’s “This is Water” and Jonathan Franzen’s “Oh the Places You’ll Go” are commencement speeches at Kenyon College, delivered by amazing authors. Although Wallace and Franzen's speeches convey different perspectives and ideas, both speeches advise students with a significant message about life. To begin with, the differences between Wallace’s and Franzen’s speeches; one focuses on the purpose of education and the other on our infatuation with technology. In his speech, Wallace indicates the purpose of liberal arts education.

“How to Get the Most Out of Yourself" by Alan Loy McGinnis a psychologist is about finding the key to success. The idea is that success is nothing more than having self-confidence. Whenever we face failures or bad luck we end up putting ourselves down which makes it seem impossible for us to ever be successful. McGinnis advices that we should keep our chin high and improve on our failures instead of letting them bring us down. McGinnis states that we should focus on our abilities and not on our weak ones.

The "fireproof" movie is an excellent example of several interpersonal communications challenges takes in our day by day lives, how communication issues may become a barrier to the growth in the various relationship and how understanding communication skills bring differences in the relationship. The main characters in the movie, Caleb, and his wife Catherine both did not know how to communicate to each other correctly. Both of them were delivering messages through numerous active, passive and interactive ways to each other. Both of them were not aware of that to have intimacy in any marriage relationship requires interactions with abundant listening and understanding. They both did talking to each other a lot, but neither of them listened to each other giving respect and trying to understand what each other is trying to communicate.

In the stories The Pearl by John Steinbeck and The Far Side by Gary Larson they are both very similar. I will be comparing how both of these stories are similar in the following paragraphs. Both stories are about how you see something as beautiful in the beginning and then afterall it is not as beautiful as you once thought it was. In The Far Side cartoon it hows a picture of a cocoon on a tree, and across from the cocoon is a butterfly, but the butterfly is stuck in a spiders web.

On top of this, a secondary method to improve relational communication is by prioritizing emotional awareness. Per helpguide.org, this skill assists in accurately reading others emotions and/or general feeling in regard to a certain situation, improve trust within the relationship, and helps signify understanding and care (“Nonverbal Communication,” (n.d.)). Encoding also proves my advice as beneficial and correct by demonstrating how proper use of interpreting the emotional mindset of those engaged in effective (relational) communication can lead to appropriate understanding of the feelings and thoughts and/or concerns of those one is communicating with. Had this been implemented in the example used previously, Rocky would affirm his relation connection with Marie, utilize direct blending of

Now in days with the divorce rates so high the lack of communication plays a huge role on how we can start decreasing it. It’s hard to keep a relationships going when there’s no communication. Men and woman usually start to blame each other because of their problem in which lead to divorce but the source of the problem was their own knowledge on how to understand each other needs when communicating. Woman are used to having a different way of communication with her peers and it’s hard for them to think that they can’t talk to her husband the same way they would talk to their girlfriends. Then a man thinks he can use the same methods he uses when talking to his friends when he’s speaking to his wife.

And, in a personal level, since I love my wife so much, I want to say that how essential is the role he has been implementing in my family, as an exemplary wife and

Come Outside to Play: The Need for the Revitalization of Parks and Recreations In Berks County, has played a pivotal role in the lives of families for generations. I can remember going to park when I was younger and having the time of my life. Flying kites with my dad, going swimming, and craft days on Friday. There was never a dull moment and it gave me some of my best childhood memories. However, the recent downturn in economics has left many parks and recreations departments feeling a blow to their budgets.

Naomi Shihab Nye’s father is a Palestinian refugee and her mother is an American (Poetry Foundation). With this, she has learned about different cultures and has knowledge about them. Knowing about other places have helped prompt her writing. Nye tries to make people understand problems in other cultures, through her literary works, “To Jamyla Bolden of Ferguson, Missouri”, “Before I was Gazen”, and “Business”. Nye’s text, “To Jamyla Bolden of Ferguson, Missouri” impacted how people thought about issues and trying to bring people together to think about others, and other places.

In Deborah Tannen's essay, "Sex, Lies, and Conversation" she elightens her readers on an age old question, about communication between sexes. I personally have had several experiences with this exact subject, some of them merely reiterating the author's point, and others seemingly disproving her entire theory. For example, with my ex-boyfriend having any sort of conversation was so unbelievably difficult that it was hard to believe we were from the same species, much less speaking the same language. However, in my current relationship with my fiancee we talk easily due to having so much in common, which makes both of us want to communicate with each other, even in difficult circumstances. Which is why I feel that a great deal of communication

She emphasizes the recognition of “cross-cultural” communication is beneficial to repair the conversational issues (Tannen 264). She proposes couples to improve their relationship by learning differences, adjusting conversational styles, and changing attitude. Learning differences is crucial to couples at the beginning of improvement, which helps couples to achieve mutual acceptance. Ideally, couples change their communication patterns according to their partners’ preference.

Communication is a critical foundation of every relationship; without it the relationship is deemed unsuccessful. Unsuccessful communication can result in constant tension, power inequalities and disagreements. Relational Dialectics is a communication theory, formed by Leslie Baxter and Barbara Montgomery, in which personal relationships are judged upon the management of tension produced by contradictory forces. (Thrift, 2017). Each of the contradictory forces contain two components, an internal source, between the individuals in the relationship and and external source, which is interference from the outside world.

I have chosen to write a review of the movie “I am Sam” because it is a powerful, emotional film about love, the family bonds, and parenting challenges. The main character, Sam, lived in Los Angeles, CA in the 1990s. Sam has the mental capacity of seven years old, he works at Starbucks and has a daughter with a homeless woman who abandoned them after she gave birth to his daughter. Sam is an avid Beatles fan and named his daughter Lucy Diamond after the Beatles song. Sam’s mental impairments are autistic tendencies and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Self-reflections on communication skills It is inescapable to have interpersonal conflict in any relationships and situations. (Solomon&Theiss, 2013) Yet, we should be able to handle conflicts with skills. Regarding the conflict I encountered, there are some communication skills I should have known and

The use and function of topography in ‘Is There Nowhere Else We Can Meet?’ and ‘Burger’s Daughter’ Both ‘Is There Nowhere Else We Can Meet?’ and ‘Burger’s Daughter’ contain topography. ‘Is There Nowhere Else We Can Meet?’ portrays the antithesis between a forest and a town, whilst ‘Burger’s Daughter’ addresses the antithesis between the small public square and the big strands.